All Quotes

Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?'
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway?
‐‐ John Ensign

Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.
‐‐ Jimmy Durante

Why can't Google, which likes to see itself as a 'Don't Be Evil' benevolent force in society, just write us a big check for using our stories, so we can keep checks and balances alive and continue to provide the search engine with our stories?
‐‐ Maureen Dowd

Why can't I be different and unusual... like everyone else?
‐‐ Vivian Stanshall

Why can't I be the adorable one?
‐‐ Dorothy Kilgallen

Why can't I just eat my waffle?
‐‐ Barack Obama

Why can't it be awesome to work for a food company? Why can't we create an environment where people are trying to push each other to do great things, and we're not trying to steal from anybody - we're trying to be good to our farmers and run an honorable business, if there is such a thing anymore?
‐‐ David Chang

Why can't jazz musicians just leave a melody alone?
‐‐ Peter Capaldi

Why can't ladies like nice guys?
‐‐ Jorma Taccone

Why can't people credit that he and all of us had a sense of humour?
‐‐ Ingrid Thulin

Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?
‐‐ Casey Affleck

Why can't science work on making women more entitled in general? Or at least get us to listen to those L'Oreal ads that tell us how we're worth it?
‐‐ Julie Klausner

Why can't she move in with you? Is she against that? She's not a Mormon or anything, is she?
‐‐ Joseph Bologna

Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?
‐‐ Peter Brimelow

Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?
‐‐ Antonin Scalia

Why can't the world be like a summer day, when I thought that health care would be an ethical decision and wars existed only to be stopped?
‐‐ Madeleine M. Kunin

Why can't there be a lot of great women who are doing great things?
‐‐ Kristen Wiig

Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap.
‐‐ Cloris Leachman

Why can't we, with a more intelligent policy, actually have houses that are affordable, built at higher densities than they are at the moment and built on brownfield sites.
‐‐ John Prescott

Why can't women get along? Because we're afraid. We're afraid to be vulnerable. We're afraid to be soft. We're afraid to be hurt. But most of all, we're afraid of our power. So we become controlling and aggressive and vicious.
‐‐ Iyanla Vanzant

Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It's very charming. It's very sweet. It's what the whole world should do.
‐‐ Michael Jackson

Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.
‐‐ Tim Finn

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?
‐‐ Zebulon Pike

Why climb? That's a question that baffles me. It perplexes me. I really asked that a lot on Everest. I can't justify it. I can't say it's for a good cause. All I can say is look at the history of exploration: it's full of vainglorious pursuits.
‐‐ Jon Krakauer

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
‐‐ Robert Browning

Why consider debates in the English House of Commons in 1628 along with documents on American developments in the late eighteenth century? The juxtaposition is not capricious, because the Commons during this period generated many of the ideas that were later embodied in the government of the United States.
‐‐ Edmund Morgan

Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?
‐‐ Ann Coulter

Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus' as different from ours in Maryland, as you can think. Dey laughed when dey heard me talk, an' I could not understand 'dem, no how.
‐‐ Harriet Tubman

Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.
‐‐ Leo Rosten

Why did God have to make Mo'Nique a good actress? What was God thinking when he decided to give Mo'Nique acting chops. Now we have to endure Mo'Nique comedy specials.
‐‐ Andy Kindler

Why did Google, for example, recently decide to offer free 411 service? I haven't talked to people at Google, but it's pretty clear to me why. It's because of speech recognition. It has nothing to do with 411 service: it has to do with getting a database of voices, so they don't have to license speech technology from Nuance or someone else.
‐‐ Tim O'Reilly

Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?
‐‐ Jared Diamond

Why did humans lose their body hair? Why did they start walking on their hind legs? Why did they develop big brains? I think that the answer to all three questions is sexual selection.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.
‐‐ H. G. Bissinger

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
‐‐ Jackie Chan

Why did I break up with Elvis? It was difficult to watch his slow demise.
‐‐ Linda Thompson

Why did I not stop to have children? I suppose because the opportunity didn't present itself. Yes, many women feel they are not complete without having children, but I have different creative outlets.
‐‐ Miranda Richardson

Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.
‐‐ Asia Argento

Why did I want to become a director? I just had an early interest. My uncle was an actor in a local community theatre, and he ultimately persuaded me and a buddy of mine to come to that theatre, and we went to meet girls, and that turned into interested in kind of behind-the-scenes things, and from that point on, I was focused.
‐‐ F. Gary Gray

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
‐‐ Tennessee Williams

Why did I write 'The Emperor of All Maladies?' A 56-year-old woman with an abdominal sarcoma, having undergone two remissions and a relapse, asked me to describe what she was battling. By the time I had finished answering her, I realised that I had written 600 pages.
‐‐ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked.
‐‐ Edmund White

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
‐‐ Charles de Lint

Why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum that it could be done.
‐‐ S. Truett Cathy

Why did the Clinton Administration continue to liberalize export controls on sensitive technologies even after it learned that China had stolen designs?
‐‐ Charles Bass

Why did the Clinton Administration wait from 1995 to 1998 to tighten security and bolster counterintelligence at U.S. weapons labs?
‐‐ Charles Bass

Why did the earthquake and tsunami occur in Japan? Was it the act of an angry God? No, it was the result of the movement and collision of the earth's tectonic plates - a process driven by the earth's need to regulate its own internal temperature. Without the process that creates earthquake, our planet could not sustain life.
‐‐ Adam Hamilton